Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-20
EDITORIAL NOTES WHICH WE
HAVE STOLEN.

The New Yerk Workingmsn's Union
sty Mayor Hewitt "a constitutional
hypoek oRdriscsl crank"
The Hon. VIM. n. Kva-ts' boots are re-
xarded ~ the finest In the Senate and are
said to cost him IS 9 p.ir.
When folly's gay pursuits were Ger.
Aud could sing and dance no more
IL then oceurrd how sad 'twoul1 be
Were this world only m de for me.
Il viii have TO be station before long.
Deepo and dsppo are going to tak the
slev stor and leave for the tar West.
where things are not % English. yeu
know.
The great John L. Sullivan announces
that al America il behind him. That
oeing the case, he should see to IL that he
gives his beloved country no provOcatien
70 kick.
Ire discovery Of rich vein of iron ore
In Kes lucky is another slsp in the mel
ancholy face Ct the star-eyed goddess OF
4 ee Trade. 1t taxes enterprise 20 dis
cover an iron mine and tariff Protection
TO develop 1t.
Honor thy father and thy mother that
thy days may be loag In the land which
the Losd thy God giyeth thee. and Cal
fornian the other day thrashed q minister
be ause his mother was refused admission
70 the ministe. 5 church.
C0lLG VI 0AA01buA0o Au01N CnAAu1AanAAA
admirers seem scaroeiy TO agree with his
xpres ion in the -Nineteenth Century"
that the nRturhl condition OF q healthy
society Is that governing functions should
De discharged in the main By the letsured
class"
OF the eleven Senators Whs voted
2gainst confirm ng the colOred Mugwump
Trotfe- a. Recorder Of Deed all but three
@ere HemScrats IL may be ram arked
hat the Dem cracy continues to love the
olosed brother in the san Q old way as il
did befo' the wah. -
Edmund Yates cables over the interest
ing supf osition that hencefoTwsrd ear, a.
Iuake nightgowns will form part OF the
waraIobs Of lsdie3 visiting the Riviera
that II they have 70 rush from their
b ds into the st seets they VIII be clothed
n Ga T1ents most suitable to set off their
beauty.
The English craze for 'plst0nio friend
shis betwean prominent society men and
the wives II sthar ma has been intro
ducedi into this country, ana ePi ears
dix sly TO have quite a ran II the friend
saip b comes Ioo platOnic II can gen
orally ne Gu ed with the aid Of good
shotgun.
Through Grant and the friendship Of
Doc &c and others, Sheridan was given q
staff position IN he Tennessee camp ti2n.
The Governor of Michigan came down
looking for Colonel for the n st Cavalry
regiment Of his tate. Grant and Dos ge
~; ommended Sherie an. md away rode
Little Phil into immOI tally.
That able Kentuckian who boasts that
he never has used whisky or tobacco is
stu in Washington trying to secure the
post Of minister TO Austris, but there isn't
much chance for h m. There Is a settled
ceiling IN Administration cir les that q
kentuckian with such a record as his IL
too rare curiosity to send out Of the
cou stry, even to loan exhibition.
When a Chinaman meets another he
shake, sQuseZes his own hands and
covers his .ad. IL great friends had not
seen each other for long time. after the
manual haHdshaking they would rub
shoulders until they become tired. In
.t4Ad of asking each othe . health. they
would say: Have you eaten your rice.
where are you going. and what is your
you. end how much did you pay fer your
shoesl'
A great cry goes up eternally aboEt the
railroads. For my part l would rather
have the vanderbilta carry my trunk
than to carry il myself. Thy can do it
cheaper. AL modern agitation lesds me
20 conclude that social end political con-
ditions are to be- improved by evolution,
not by revolution. there is not an art in
which the profit Is NOT less than the waste
OF rs years ago. The margin Of profit has
become very small. II men become rich
hy saying the waste and apply ing II to
the benefit of labor who sufiersl
Things look cheerful In Europe. France
and Germany are gisriHg at each other
over the frontier. p.tcisely like two tom
cats watching through fence aRd wait
| ing for a movement 20 fall on one an
other. War 10 inevitable because the
Political system is in need OF blood let
| ting an cid fsshioaed remedy. but then
Nurope is old -fashionad. and still loves
| he d 1astic, heroic treatment in vogue
centuries ago. Gathe- in the ARar shists
and Socialists. the y ihilists, the criminals.
and send them TO the front
The average reader and book-buyer IL
| constantly put 20 his wits end to decide
what constitutes a duodecino, 3 l6mo. al
octave, . crown octsvo, etc. 4 here Is
Ah-oiu'e'y no flVed law which governs
this question. Presumably the sizs of .
back is determined by the number q
fsids Of the paper which forms q ''sigE a.
tuie" but The length ant breadth Of
paper way so greatly thai the number OF
| folds really Indicate nothing Of the siza Of
q books page In England they have
/ Just made an attempt 70 AZ up . new
scaIe OF standards as follows:
f,arge foiig Ia fol .........-OYer Is inches